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Continue reading →: Lament for the ChurchI have been reflecting on the flow of divine action—how God works through Christ, in the Spirit, through the church, for the sake of the world. Yet when I consider the place of the church in this divine economy, I am disheartened. In the West especially, our witness falters. Scandal,…
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Continue reading →: Love Me Or Else! Is This The Message Of Jesus?I came across a journal entry from two years ago that caught my attention. I’d written about a man who saw Jesus as someone who condemns anyone who doesn’t love him, rather than someone who loves everyone and would reach out to anyone willing to take his hand. Reading it…
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Continue reading →: The Early Church and the Sword: Before the Edict of MilanIt’s tempting to imagine the early church as unanimously pacifist, as a pure, unbroken line of peace teaching from the Sermon on the Mount to the Edict of Milan. The truth, as always, is more nuanced. Yet what emerges from the writings of the ante-Nicene fathers is a striking moral…
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Continue reading →: Everything and Nothing: God Beyond CategoriesEverything exists in relation to other things.Yet God is no “thing” among them —the uncreated Creator,the wellspring of existence,beyond all categorisation.
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Continue reading →: Condemning All Political Violence, Whoever Commits ItI have consistently condemned political violence since I began blogging decades ago. I have explicitly denounced Hamas terrorism against civilians on multiple occasions. That is why I reject the false equation that my opposition to Israeli genocide of Palestinian civilians is the same as support for Hamas. Violence against civilians…
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Continue reading →: Genesis 3:16 and the Roots of PatriarchyI recently came across someone claiming Genesis 3:16 shows the Bible endorses misogyny. I get why it might sound that way, but that’s not what’s going on. “To the woman he said, ‘I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children.…
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Continue reading →: Galatians Revisited: Why Christian Nationalism Betrays the GospelIn Galatians, Paul is clear: the good news of Jesus is not bound to any one nation, culture, or ethnicity. When some insisted that Gentile believers had to take on Jewish cultural identity markers to truly belong, Paul named it for what it was, a distortion of the gospel. Christian…
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Continue reading →: Nepalese Buddhism from a Christian PerspectiveA conversation the other day nudged me to look more closely at Buddhism in Nepal. Though I expected Tibetan influences given Nepal’s proximity to the Himalayas, what I found was a far more layered picture. Nepal is home to three distinct strands of Buddhism: All three mingle in Nepal’s cultural…
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Continue reading →: Immigration, Identity, and Jesus: A Challenge for Australian ChristiansThere’s a lot of fear in the air when it comes to immigration and multicultural Australia. Some say we’re being overrun, or that whole towns are under foreign laws. Others paint every migrant community as a threat. But as Christians, we need to be honest: that’s not the voice of…
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